Characteristics of patient monitoring systems by region
| Number responding ‘yes’ | Total number of responses | Percentage of countries that responded ‘yes’ (%) | |
| Entity is responsible for patient monitoring | 14 | 15 | 93 |
| Ministry of Health | 13 | 14 | 93 |
| National Public Health Institute | 1 | 14 | 7 |
| Other | 1 | 14 | 7 |
| Patient monitoring data are used in country | 13 | 14 | 93 |
| Service coverage calculation | 12 | 13 | 92 |
| Service quality improvement | 8 | 13 | 62 |
| Commodity forecasting | 10 | 13 | 77 |
| Patient monitoring system is currently funded | 12 | 14 | 86 |
| Domestic | 9 | 12 | 75 |
| Multilateral | 9 | 12 | 75 |
| Bilateral* | 9 | 12 | 75 |
| Private | 1 | 12 | 8 |
| Private sector monitors patients using the same system | 5 | 12 | 42 |
| Patient monitoring system is used for social health insurance reimbursement | 2 | 14 | 14 |
| Patient monitoring system is linked to other systems | 7 | 13 | 54 |
| Case reporting | 3 | 7 | 43 |
| Laboratory information system | 5 | 7 | 71 |
| Vital statistics | 3 | 7 | 43 |
| Health insurance system | 1 | 7 | 14 |
| Unique identifiers are used for patient monitoring | 7 | 12 | 58 |
| National ID | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| Health ID | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| System-specific ID | 2 | 6 | 33 |
| Client demographics | 3 | 6 | 50 |
| Biometric data | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Security measures used for electronic patient monitoring systems | 11 | 11 | 100 |
| Physical barrier | 7 | 11 | 64 |
| Software barrier | 9 | 11 | 82 |
| Legal barrier | 3 | 11 | 27 |
| Encryption | 5 | 11 | 45 |
| Unique ID | 3 | 11 | 27 |
Missing or ‘N/A’ responses are excluded from the denominator number of responses.
*Bilateral organisations include both government agencies and non-government agencies.